The Wrap: Myanmar gets its first e-commerce payment platform
In the news: e-commerce payment platform for Myanmar, Travelport partners BeMyGuest, 7% passenger growth for AirAsia in FY2014Myanmar gets its first e-commerce payment platformMyanmar citizens, who hold payment cards issued by Myanmar Payment Union (MPU), which authorises the issuance and acceptance [...]
With 75% ownership, Expedia firmly in driving seat in Asia
When Expedia and AirAsia formed their 50/50 joint venture in 2011, they called it a “happy marriage”. Well, we guess now it can be called a happier marriage because with today’s announcement that Expedia has increased its stake in AAE Travel to 75%, both parties do end up happier as a result.A [...]
The Millennial Traveller: The Tinder Trap
A close friend recently asked me how I felt about Singapore’s dating pool. As a prospective newcomer to the city, he held a rightful amount of curiosity paired with a subtle dose of concern. Given this technological age, we’ve almost forgotten what it’s like to organically meet someone in the [...]
The five elephants in India’s tourism closet
This is a guest blog by Carolyn Childs, co-founder of MyTravelResearch.com, a market research and marketing firm specialising in the travel, tourism and aviation industries.Promoting India is as much about clearing barriers as it is about inspiring people. So for India to maximise the benefits of to [...]
The Wrap: Chinese online retail spending forecast to reach US$1 trillion by 2019: Forrester
In the news: Forrester’s forecast on China’s online retail spending, MAS’ new rules on e-cigarettes, Trisara Academy’s hospitality internship programme, Travelport’s multi-year agreement with Hutchinson-Priceline Chinese online retail spending forecast to reach US$1 trillion by 2019: Forre [...]
Share your “food-fies” in Accor’s new social media campaign
Accor Hotels has launched a “Savour, Snap, Share” social media campaign across Asia to bring together social media, food and selfies. Hotel guests and anyone interested in this contest can share “food-fies” (selfies with food) of themselves enjoying culinary delights at any Accor property ar [...]
The Okura Group is TripAdvisor’s new instant booking partner
Leading Japanese hospitality company, Hotel Okura Co Ltd, has entered into a partnership with travel site, TripAdvisor, making it the first Asia-based company to make its hotel inventory available through the latter's instant booking platform.This new platform, which is currently available to U.S. t [...]
How India’s tourism could be increasingly incredible
This is a guest blog by Carolyn Childs, co-founder of MyTravelResearch.com, a market research and marketing firm specialising in the travel, tourism and aviation industries.Since returning from Australia Business Week in India in mid January I've written a lot about how Australia can profit from the [...]
LY.com finds itself in the middle of the OTA melee – and likes where it’s at
This is an article by Aaron Stewart, ChinaTravelNews correspondentLY.com (Chinese name 同程旅游, Tongcheng Lvyou) is a leading Chinese online travel platform that specialises in weekend getaways and local sightseeing tickets. In April 2014, LY received a US$200 million investment from Chinese OT [...]
Emirates to hold Singapore Hackathon in March
Following the success of its travel hackathons in Silicon Valley in 2013 and in Boston in 2014, Emirates, a global connector of people and places, is partnering with WIT (Web In Travel) to run its first hackathon in Singapore during the March 14-15 weekend.The 48-hour event, to be held at 237 @ 237 [...]
